“I’ve never seen anything like this in terms of a proposal by the president that isn’t even given five minutes of serious discussion,” Johanns says. “This budget is going nowhere.”

The president’s budget totals $3.9 trillion. It includes $55 billion in new spending on defense, highway infrastructure, preschool education, even an increase in tax credits for the poor. It would raise taxes by $1 trillion through increased taxes on businesses and America’s wealthy.

The White House estimates that the debt would shrink under the president’s budget plan to around 69% of the Gross Domestic Product. That, though, is a far rosier take than that projected by the Congressional Budget Office, which forecasts the debt to rise to 74% of the GDP in 2024.

Congressman Jeff Fortenberry, a member of the House Budget Committee, says the proposal lacks courage and vision.

“This budget significantly increases taxes and spending and has a whole laundry list of ideas that are going nowhere in the House,” according to Fortenberry.